From: Juha Paavola (juha.paavola@compart.fi)
Date: Tue Dec 07 1999 - 20:52:18 CET
UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM POSTLIST !!!!
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From: Dave Houghton <davehoughton@g0mxw.free-online.co.uk>
To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: mu TECH
> "Hartmut Surmann(02241/14-2518)" wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > exists a tex/latex and emacs distribution for mulinux?
> >
>
> I started a latex/LyX distribution for muLinux about 6 months ago. The
> problem I had (apart from lack of interest from the mailing list!!) was
> the fact that it is such a huge program. I had to make the decision as
> to what styles templates, what printer types to support etc in order to
> cut the size down. I know you can configure these yourself but the
> configuration routines in tex/latex need a bash shell to run and will not
> run on ash. So we will have to accept a pre-configured setup. Using a
> small handfull of style templates, a default postscript printer and a
> couple of stripped down binary and library files, I managed to get the
> size down to 12Mb (bzipped size) still way too large.
>
> I'm now trying something else so I'll throw it to the list again.
> What document styles,fonts,printer support do you need/want ? ...
> assuming you wan't TeX at all !!
>
> Dave
> muLinux U.K. mirror
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> >
> > Regards
> > Hartmut
> >
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